And fuck that piece of shit Joe Biden,who completely turned his back on police reform after promising it to get elected.
You are not being fair to Biden.
The George Floyd Bill was introduced in 2020 during the Trump Admin. (Trump vowed to veto it.) The Bill Passed the House but Republicans blocked it in the Senate. In 2021 it was again introduced in the House and once again passed.
President Biden was a strong supporter of the bill. But, again, after long negotiations with Senate Republicans and compromises by the Senate Democrats, the Bill was blocked by Senate Republicans, who threatened a filibuster if the Bill were to be brought to the floor. Without enough Republican votes to overcome a filibuster (60 votes in total) the bill was doomed.
from Wiki:
Biden repeatedly pushed for the legislation to be advanced; in his
April 2021 speech to Congress, Biden praised bipartisan "productive discussions" on police reform and called upon Congress to send him the bill by the one-year anniversary of Floyd's death.
[37][38] In announcing that negotiations had failed, Booker said that the parties were unable to agree about the fate of
qualified immunity for police departments and officers and that Republicans were unwilling to agree to a national database to track police misconduct.
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Passed House (03/03/2021)
George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021
This bill addresses a wide range of policies and issues regarding policing practices and law enforcement accountability. It increases accountability for law enforcement misconduct, restricts the use of certain policing practices, enhances transparency and data collection, and establishes best practices and training requirements.
The bill enhances existing enforcement mechanisms to remedy violations by law enforcement. Among other things, it does the following:
- lowers the criminal intent standard—from willful to knowing or reckless—to convict a law enforcement officer for misconduct in a federal prosecution,
- limits qualified immunity as a defense to liability in a private civil action against a law enforcement officer, and
- grants administrative subpoena power to the Department of Justice (DOJ) in pattern-or-practice investigations.
It establishes a framework to prevent and remedy racial profiling by law enforcement at the federal, state, and local levels. It also limits the unnecessary use of force and restricts the use of no-knock warrants, chokeholds, and carotid holds.
The bill creates a national registry—the National Police Misconduct Registry—to compile data on complaints and records of police misconduct. It also establishes new reporting requirements, including on the use of force, officer misconduct, and routine policing practices (e.g., stops and searches).
Finally, it directs DOJ to create uniform accreditation standards for law enforcement agencies and requires law enforcement officers to complete training on racial profiling, implicit bias, and the duty to intervene when another officer uses excessive force.
